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William Faulkner

1897 – 1962 · United States · Literature

Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949

Built Yoknapatawpha County and the Southern conscience.

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Who shaped William Faulkner, and who they shaped

Inherited from1

  • James Joyce

    1882 – 1941 · Literature

    Stream of consciousness enters the American South through Joyce.

Passed the work to3

  • Gabriel García Márquez

    1927 – 2014 · Literature

    Macondo is Yoknapatawpha rebuilt on the Caribbean coast.

  • Mario Vargas Llosa

    1936 – 2025 · Literature, Philosophy

    Faulknerian structure — shifting time and voice — organises his early novels.

  • Toni Morrison

    1931 – 2019 · Literature

    Morrison's Faulkner thesis feeds her handling of memory and Southern history.

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    Nobel Prize record — Nobel Prize in Literature, 1949

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